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Paramedics assist a man injured during clashes with security forces during protests asking for the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, April 20, 2017. Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets again Thursday, one day after three people were killed and hundreds arrested in the biggest anti-government demonstrations in years. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Late-night clashes claim 9th victim of Venezuelan unrest

By Joshua Goodman and Fabiola Sanchez - Associated Press

GM faces hard road getting compensated for Venezuela factory

By TOM KRISHER and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

An anti-government protester holds a bible under the watch of riot police during a march in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, April 20, 2017. Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets again, one day after three people were killed and hundreds arrested in the biggest anti-government demonstrations in years. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

The Latest: Latin America nations condemn Venezuela violence

Associated Press

Anti-government protesters launch stones with a sling during clashes in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. Tens of thousands of opponents of President Nicolas Maduro flooded the streets of Caracas in what's been dubbed the "mother of all marches" against the embattled socialist president. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

GM halts operations in Venezuela after factory is seized

Associated Press

Julio Borges, speaker of the opposition-dominated National Assembly, said President Trump is among a growing number of world leaders who understand that Venezuela's meltdown is having harrowing effects and sparking instability far beyond its borders. (Associated Press/File)

Julio Borges, Venezuela opposition leader, welcomes Donald Trump’s policy

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

Red smoke wafts into the air as it rises next to tear gas fired by the Bolivarian National Police during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, April 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela’s Maduro blasts foe for chemical attack comments

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles speaks to supporters and reporters during a meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April, 7, 2017. Capriles announced that he has been banned from running for office for 15 years, a move sure to ratchet up tensions amid a growing street protest movement. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelans pour into Caracas streets in anti-Maduro protest

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Venezuela's Vice-President Tareck El Aissami, left, and Supreme Court President Maikel Moreno during a meeting with Ambassadors from different countries and Diplomatics at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, April 1, 2017. Venezuela's president and Supreme Court backed down Saturday from an audacious move to strip congress of its legislative powers that had sparked widespread charges that the South American country was no longer a democracy. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela high court reverses move to strip congress’ power

By Hannah Dreier and Fabiola Sanchez - Associated Press

Venezuelan Bolivarian National guards officers are confronted by university students during a protest outside of the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, March 31, 2017. Venezuelans have been thrust into a new round of political turbulence after the government-stacked Supreme Court gutted congress of its last vestiges of power, drawing widespread condemnation from foreign governments and sparking protests in the capital. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela’s top prosecutor rebukes Supreme Court power grab

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Argentina's Lucas Pratto sits on the pitch during a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer soccer match against Bolivia in La Paz, Bolivia, on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Brazil 1st to qualify for World Cup, Argentina in danger

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez and pitcher Danny Duffy discuss pitches in the dugout during a spring training baseball game against the Seattle Mariners on Friday, March 24, 2017, in Peoria, Ariz. (John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star via AP)

Royal Returns: KC’s Duffy, Perez back in Cactus League

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 9, 2017 file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during an anti-imperialist rally in Caracas, Venezuela. Maduro said in a televised appearance Friday, March 24, 2017, that he asked the United Nations for “help” boosting medicine supplies in the shortage-plagued South American nation. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Venezuela asks UN help in boosting medicine supplies

By JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

In this March 17, 2017 photo, Jose Luis Garcia embraces and cries as he says goodbye to his little brother that departs to Bogota on his way to Israel, at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela. The protracted fight over the so-called “Venezuela Nine” religious converts on their way to Israel underscores the fierce debate in a divided Israeli society over who is a Jew and how a religion that doesn’t proselytize like Christianity or Islam embraces an increasing number of converts, especially from Latin America, who have found their way to Judaism outside traditional paths like marrying someone of the faith. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Promised Land: Venezuelan Jewish converts reach Israel

By DANIEL ESTRIN and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Uruguay's Edinson Cavani, center, heads the ball away from Brazil's Marquinhos, left, during a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match in Montevideo, Uruguay, Thursday, March. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Brazil destroys Uruguay, Argentina survives in qualifiers

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 20, 2016 file photo shows Los Angeles Dodgers' Adrian Gonzalez watching from the dugout during the seventh inning of Game 5 of the National League baseball championship series against the Chicago Cubs in Los Angeles. Gonzalez Gonzalez had some harsh words, Wednesday, March 15, 2017, for organizers of the World Baseball Classic, saying 'they're not even close to being the Little League World Series'. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Gonzalez criticizes WBC organizers over Mexico elimination

By JOSE M. ROMERO - Associated Press

Venezuela's Miguel Cabrera rounds the bases on a solo home run during a spring training baseball game against the Kansas City Royals, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in Surprise, Ariz. (John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star via AP)

Cabrera, Altuve hope for best Venezuelan showing yet in WBC

By JOSE M. ROMERO - Associated Press

Venezuelan art promoter, journalist Sofia Imber dies at 92

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ - Associated Press